High percentage of Chicago youth get shot or see someone shot

 MRC:

Chicago residents have a better chance of being shot than they do of getting a good education, Republican presidential hopeful Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said Friday.

“You think of a place like Chicago, these kids – you're more likely to get shot than to get a world-class education in some of these places,” DeSantis said, while addressing a homeschool convention in Orlando.

DeSantis made the comment while describing the harm done in liberal-run cities that delayed reopening schools after the COVID threat had waned.

“Nobody wants to admit that they wanted to lock kids out of school for a year and a half because you've seen the results,” DeSantis said, noting how school attendance never recovered in Chicago, Los Angeles and New York:

“From 2020 to 2022, people have just totally vanished from some of these urban school districts across the country.

“Chicago – 25,000 fewer students than in 2020; Los Angeles – 43,000 fewer students than in 2020; New York – 50,000 fewer students than in 2020. In Florida, our school enrollment is up and our homeschool numbers are up.

“You think of a place like Chicago, these kids – you're more likely to get shot than to get a world-class education in some of these places.”

The average Chicago shooting victim is high-school age (17) at the time of being shot, according to the results of a recent study of more than twenty-four hundred Chicagoans, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association.

The study also finds that 6.46% (1 in 15) of Chicagoans have been shot by their 40th birthday. What’s more, half (50.0%) have witnessed a shooting by that age. Males (11.40% or 1 in 8.8) are five times more likely than female respondents (2.28% or 1 in 43.8) to be shot by age 40.
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There are neighborhoods in Chicago with a culture of violence where the police are not welcome.